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Click here to view the original article.[Draft copy of terms of reference directs commissioners not to interfere with ongoing criminal probes. In fact, I searched the PDF and couldn't find the word 'police' in it at all. *RON*]

A draft of the terms of reference says commissioners will be given the broad mandate to identify systemic causes of violence and recommend "concrete action" to help end violence against Indigenous women and girls.

Five commissioners, including a chief commissioner, will be named, but the document does not identify them. The draft also does not include specifics about timing or length of inquiry.

Similar to the recent Truth and Reconciliation commission, the inquiry — its start date has yet to be specified — will aim to hear from the …

A man who was shot by police in Miami Wednesday evening says the officer told him he didn't know why he did it.

Charles Kinsey, 47, was shot after police got a call about a suicidal person with a gun around 5:30 p.m. ET.

Video of the event, which was provided to the Miami Herald, shows Kinsey on the ground with his hands up, next to a man he identified as a person in his care — Kinsey is a therapist who works with people with disabilities.

[Larry Miller, Conservative MP and Public Safety and National Security critic, told Muslim women to "stay the hell where they came from," warned of an imminent communist revolution, and said the long-gun registry was "what Adolph Hitler tried to do in the 1930s." *RON*]

PressProgress, 19 July 2016

The Conservatives have a new Deputy Public Safety and National Security critic.

Say hello (again) to Larry Miller, a Conservative MP who once told Muslim women to "stay the hell where they came from," warned of communist revolutions and claimed the long-gun registry was just like "what Adolph Hitler tried to do in the 1930s."

[Shillary appointees and the corporatocracy. Several delegates to the platform drafting committee have deep financial ties to conservative industries. *RON*]
By Branko Marcetic, In These Times, 18 July 2016

Bill McKibben complained that while everyone on the drafting committee agreed fossil fuels had to be phased out by 2050, the delegates voted down every specific proposal for doing so.

Depending on who you ask, the 2016 Democratic platform is either “the most progressive platform in Democratic Party history” or a “major betrayal.” Regardless of how you view it, however, there’s no denying that the platform compromises on certain core progressive values—and some of that can be traced to the platform drafting committee, which met last month to hammer out a first draft.

When the committee had finished its deliberations, many progressives initially were outraged. The draft made several major concessions to the pro-Bernie Sanders contingent of the pa…